Honda's stock electrical system is nice, the ignition is some of the best in the market, minus are little problem with the hatcahi ignitors. I had a little extra dyno time and instead of getting my money back i thought i would go and try some things. The main idear came from jdmlifestyles wire harness job, all this grounding kit bs, and general automotive knowledge.

I took out the harness and jumped up to a high grade 14g wires for the ENTIRE harness. This took a week. It was insane ammount of work.. but the more a signal/current travels the weaker it gets. Look at the voltage from your alt to your headlights.. it does drop. So i replaced all the wires and connectors to full 14g, some area's i crimped down to 16g cuase of the adapters. With the wire harness done the bulbs, interior lights, everything jumped right up in light.

I then attacked the grounds.. i ran 8 and 12 gauge with high quality brass fittings and sanded down the surface for all. Connecting each in a circle pattern.

distrubtor.. this was a little over kill.. but thats just how i do it. I took out the ignitor and soldered a more complete connection on the terminals. I then put some pertective coating to keep it from corasion/elments. Replaced the cap/rotor and spark plugs and drove off. Nice diffrence.. my *** dyno said 15hp.. but it was hard to guage.

Got on the dyno and gained 12hp. Brighter lights in and out, and something to do for a couple days.


Modified by DewMota at 12:10 AM 7/11/2004

 

nice. where are the pics of the final product?

 

Man.. the old ones must have been SHOT.

 

pics

 

i could get a camera, give me a couple days. It came out nice, really makes the engine bay sleek

 

dude..thats sweet..you should start up a service for people..charge em $100 for everything parts and labor and return shipping ..id pay for mine to be done

 

man i want to see this. pics!!! lol

 

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12whp for better wiring? Damn.

 

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Me too!

 

damn thats crazy sounds really cool and you seem like you have some good free time on your hands
for you

 

pics

 

props for good old fashioned hard work man!

if you could figure out how to mass produce these,
and you routed the wires so most were hidden,
or at least lookin "clean"

I'd guess there would be a good market for the product.

I'd also guess I couldnt afford it

 

i just got some beers and watched family guy for the harness, little athf, whatever

 

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lost me

 

while i was doing the harness, just sat back and watched tv and let my hands do the work. Really simple to do. Also take some compressed air and blow out all the sockets

 

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ah,
sounds good,
i find harness kinda cufusing though, but

 

nah bro, not at all. You just need to take your time and do 1 part at a time.. keep notes, diagrams, and understand the subject threw-out without being intimidated.

 

wow... can't wait to see pics... sounds like something well worth trying'

 

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yeah and for 20 bucks wow

 

I wanna see this bro. im glad i influenced you to do this. I only upgraded all of my grounds on my harness. but i would really like to see the finished product

 

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A little hard to believe considering all the other variables that were not mentioned, but atleast it kept you busy for awhile...

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interesting...i'm still trying to figure the gains out. your ignition sys must have been shot to gain that amount of hp. you'd be lucky to gain that much from i/h/e bolt-ons...

 

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That in itself could have been a few hp depending on age and usage of old parts

 

all i hear now a days is myf riends gianing 5-10hp with just better grounds...

 

pics plz~~ i wanna check this out..